Kimberley Scharf
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first heard Jun 2014
last heard Jun 2014
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The evidence that you find is actually a correlation.
It doesn't establish any kind of causal relationship between religion and charitable contributions.
We know that social interactions are important, and we know that almost 60% of giving occurs in social situations.
Could be the social situations that are actually driving these things.
The social pressure, possibly, of being asked to give at the weekly collection might be the thing that's actually inducing these people to give to charity within the church.
We have what we call framing effects on these kinds of surveys where the first question stimulates people to start thinking in a particular way.
So if somebody identifies themselves as a religious person and they think that religious people are actually more charitable, then it actually might have some effect and influence on the way that they answer the second question.
And when academics conduct surveys, what we would do is we would actually switch up the questions for some people.
So we would ask the question about charitable giving first and the question about religion second.
And then we would actually compare the responses across those different orderings of surveys to see if the order has actually mattered.
If you say that there are more than twice as many cases as there really are, that's a big miss.
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